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    It is not the case that The general is identical with the boy who was beaten at school.

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    • 1.Personal identity requires memory continuity: a person at time T2 is identical to a person at T1 only if T2-person can remember T1-person's experiences.
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    • 2.The general cannot remember being the boy who was flogged, only remembers being the young officer (per Reid's own stipulated case).
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    • 3.Therefore, the transitivity argument fails because P2 is false: the brave officer is not identical to the boy, breaking the chain.
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    • 1.Locke's memory criterion entails that identity is not transitive across time when memory links are discontinuous, making transitivity inapplicable here.
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    • 2.Reid's own puzzle demonstrates that memory-based identity generates contradictions precisely because it cannot sustain transitive closure across broken recollective chains.
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    • 1.The general is identical with the brave officer.
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    • 2.The brave officer is identical with the boy who was beaten at school.
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    • 3.Identity is transitive: if A is identical with B and B is identical with C, then A is identical with C.
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